Playoff Packet #2

MLK 2006

Playoff Packet #2

Mircea Eliade, Schleirmacher,

1. The early nonlinear phase of this phenomenon is described by the Layzer model and the linear regime has a growth rate proportional to the square root of the gravitational acceleration. It is important in a plasma at the center of a magnetic mirror and in the implosion of a fusion capsule, whereasymmetries enhance this effect. Probably its most famousmanifestation is in the fingers of the Crab Nebula. FTP, name thisinstability caused by a heavier fluid being supported by a lighter fluid,named for two British scientists.

Answer: Rayleigh-Taylor instability (prompt on gravitational instability orflute instability)

2. The first king of this name was probably born of Seniseneb and his non-royal wife Mutnefret has a notable statue erected at the so-called Wadjmose chapel. A description on the rock of Tombos and one of his official Turi indicate his decisive campaign to Kerma. A silver vessel inscribed for the soldier Djehutydates to the third king of this name, and the fourth dedicated a tomb to his royal nurse Hekarnehhe and was perhaps illegitimate, as hinted at by the “Sphinx stele” which describes his divine ascension. By way of Merytra, the third fathered Amenhotep II, and not until late in his reign long after the Battle of Megiddo did he deface the monuments of Hatshepsut. FTP, give this common name of four kings of the 18th Dynasty, the third of which is sometimes called the “Napoleon of Egypt.”

Answer: Thutmose

3. One character famously sings, “Why should our damn’d Tyrants oblige us to live, On the pittance of Pleasure which they only give.” Another says that his wife has smallpox and that he will only take her to a play if she agrees to dress as a man.The polite culture of Dainty Fidget and Old Lady Squeamish is but a façade, and Lucy is the maidservant of Alithea,who takes the blame at the play’s end for an elaborate misunderstanding, when Alithea deserts Sparkish. Famously rewritten by David Garrick, it sees the gallant Harcourt and Mr. Horner, who has his doctor Quack spread a rumor that he is impotent so that other men will trust him. FTP, name this Restoration comedy about a controlling husband and the titular character Margery, the most famous work of William Wycherley.

Answer: The Country Wife

4. Jean Goujon created several for the western wing of the Louvre. Their name perhaps derives from a cult celebrating “Artemis of the walnut tree,” the focus of an annual Spartan festival. The fact that they appear at the Siphnian Treasury in Delphi casts doubts on the story of Vitruvius that they were named after women of a Greek town living in the wake of the town’s alliance with the Persians. The most famous are likely the work of Alcamenes, and appear only on the prostasis at the southwest corner of their venue, unlike the north prostasis which merely features tall Ionic columns. FTP, give this term for the six massive female statues which serve as columns on the porch of the Erechtheum.

Answer: caryatids

5. This country’s highest point of Moussa Ali lies on the northern border and its LakeAbbe is in the west. The island of Musha lies south of the port city of Obock in the Gulf of Tadjoura which very prominently shapes its coastline. Home to the lowest point in all of Africa, Lake Asal, it is due west from the “Seven Brothers”, a group of islands in a famous strait along with Perim Island, which divides that strait into Alexander’s Strait and the Dact-el-Mayun. Situated west of the Bab el Mandeb and south of Eritrea, FTP, name this small African country north of Somalia and east of Ethiopia with a capital of the same name.

Answer: Djibouti

6. The Extended Euclidean Algorithm can be used to compute the value for D, which is E raised to the negative one mod phi. Phi is in turn defined as the quantity (p-1) times the quantity (q-1) where p and q are large random primes of approximately equal size. E is the public exponent, D is the secret exponent, and they are coupled with a modulus N. Its initial discovery was made by Clifford Cocks, but not released because of his agency's classified status. Invented in 1977, FTP, name this algorithm which is the most common public-key system in cryptography, named for the last initials of its three co-discoverers.

Answer: RSA algorithm (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman algorithm)

7. One prong of this movement and conflict was sparked in the Bethlehem Chapel by Jakoubek of Stribo and followers included the Brotherhood of Orphans. Some factions pressed on to fight the Battle of Lipany where Procopius the Great was killed, after he had succeeded John Zizka. The so-called Calixtines supported a document known as the Four Articles of Prague, while the Horebites were a more radical group. The failure of Sigismund’s crusade against them necessitated the calling of the Council of Basel, where the acceptance of the celebration of the Communion in both kinds was enough to reconcile the Utraquists. The Taborites however fought on, FTP, representing this movement dating back to the Council of Constance where its namesake was condemned and burned at the stake.

Answer: Hussite Movement or Wars (accept “followers of Hus” and the like)

8. Jeff Buckley covered this song on his live album, and UB40, Tori Amos, and Nina Simone have also performed it. Its author wrote it after seeing a Lawrence Beitler photograph of Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp. The song’s best-known performer closed all of her shows with it, and a book of the same name by Lillian Smith heavily influenced her. The song combines images of the “scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh” with the “sudden smell of burning flesh.” Composed in 1939 by Jewish schoolteacher Lewis Allan, its third line notes “black bodies swinging in the southern breeze.” FTP, name this song condemning the lynching of black people, most famously performed by Billie Holliday.

Answer: Strange Fruit

9. At one point, the narrator thinks he sees a tortoise crawling towards him with the word “memento” written in flaming letters on its back. He climbs Rock Redondo, and soon after divulges the story of the USS Essex. He gives an account of a dog-king and of Hunilla, the “Chola widow,” whose husband drowned on a fishing trip. Oberlus deserts and makes his living selling vegetables to passing ships on Hood’s Isle, until he begins kidnapping sailors and eventually steals a boat. Each section of this work begins with a few lines of poetry, most of which are taken from The Faerie Queen. A series of ten sketches, FTP, name these works about the Galapagos Islands, based primarily on the travels of their author, Herman Melville.

Answer: The Encantadas

10. The author discusses the epistemological rejection of ideology and the development of institutional relationships in “The Politics of Meaning.” He posits a set of control mechanisms consisting of plans, recipes, rules, and instructions in defining the titular concept, which is a “template” of “program,” and discusses the work of Susanne Langer entitled Philosophy in a New Key. Another section is entitled “The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States” and the author posits a “breaking through the veil” in such chapters as “The Cerebral Savage.” Echoing Weber in believing that man is an animal suspended in “webs of significance,” it begins with a so-called “Thick Description” and ends with the chapter “Deep Play.” FTP, name this collection of selected essays about life on Bali, the most famous work of Clifford Geertz.

Answer: The Interpretation of Cultures

11. Its fourth movement features an unexpected fugue and some humorous false starts in different keys, and the earliest comprehensive recording of the entire set was made by Talich, and then a later one by Jeremias. It opens with an unadorned pastoral harp and one movement depicts the wrath of an Amazon maiden at the men who have betrayed her. It is book-ended by the triumphant prophecies of a seeress that harken back to its composer’s opera Libuse. A more popular section features flutes and clarinets, depicting the conjunction of two mountain streams, which coalesce into the Zionist national anthem.Composed of pieces like “Tabor,” “Sarka,” and “The Moldau,” FTP, name this cycle of six symphonic poems by Bedrich Smetana, which translates as “My Fatherland.”

Answer: Ma Vlast (or “My Country,” “My Fatherland”, etc. before mentioned)

12. The scholar Manfred Frank analyzed this man’s dialectics, attributing to him a consensus-theory of truth, and he emphasizes the tension between “distinctive” and “universal” sides of ethics. He collaborated on the literary journal Athenaeum, leading to the proto-feminist work Idea for a Catechism of Reason for Noble Ladies, and wrote works on Jews in Prussia and the unpublished essays On the Highest Good and On What Gives Value to Life. His two notable works on Spinoza were prompted by Jacobi, and he studied under the Herrnhuters. The author of Christmas Eve, the subtitle of his main work was aimed at vilifying the Enlightenment and romantic skepticism. FTP, name this author of The Soliloquies and The Christian Faith, an 18th century German theologian and philosopher most famous for On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers.

Answer: Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher

13. One character drops his trousers in response to a stupid joke, prompting the teller of the joke to spit in his face. A Sarah Vaughan song plays on a jukebox during the final scene, and when the play opens, a man is paging through a comic book. The first section concludes with the story of a successful kite-flying expedition, but the mood darkens when a main character receives a call from the hospital where his alcoholic father periodically receives treatment. An extended discussion of the significance of dance leads to fantasizing about “a world without collisions,” or so dreams the custodian Willie. Hally has a long conversation with his mother and father, and then demands that Sam refer to him by a certain name.Set in 1950s Port Elizabeth, FTP, name this 1982 play by Athol Fugard.
Answer: Master Harold and the Boys

14. Its regulation occurs principally at CPS-I, which is relatively inactive in the absence of its allosteric activator N-acetylglutamate, and disorders with it can lead to citrullenemia. In this process, ornithine arising in the cytosol is transported to the mitochondrial matrix, where ornithine transcabamoylase catalyzes its condensation with carbamoyl phosphate, resulting in the production of citrulline. Citrulline and aspartate are then condensed to form argininosuccinate. Discovered by Kurt Henseleit and Hans Krebs, FTP, this is what biochemical cycle named for the nitrogenous waste product of humans made from ammonia and excreted by the bladder.

Answer: urea cycle

15. This period saw the Shimabara Uprising, the rebellion of Oshio Heihachiro, and the anatomical text Katai shinsho. It also saw the erection of the so-called DetachedPalace, built by Toshihito and his son Toshitada, and the violent eruption of Mount Asama, provoking the Tempo Famine. Only 15 years in, the Battle of Naniwa was interruptive, but later it saw the bureaucratic Kyoho Reforms, which proceeded the Kansei Reforms of Matsudaira Sadanobu, which in turn proceeded the Tempo Reforms. Yoshimune was a powerful shogun, but more famous are the second and third shoguns, Hidetada and Iemitsu, who consolidated power after military victory at the Battle of Sekigahara. FTP, thisled to the establishment of what period of Japanese history from 1607 to 1867, founded by Ieyasu.

Answer: Tokugawa Shogunate (accept Edo Period)

16. One line makes reference to an Adlai Stevenson quote on the death of Eleanor Roosevelt, and another refers to an older version of the military communication alphabet, citing the three letters “the Ables and the Bakers and the Cs.” The speaker tells us thatthe “shoe is on the hand it fits” and references the “paint by number morning sky.” Moreover, cows are giving kerosene, a kid can’t read at seventeen, and the words he knows are all obscene, but the singer stresses repeatedly that it’s alright because “I will get by, I will survive.” A real audience at Laguna Seca Raceway was used in the famous video, featuring skeleton puppets gradually turning into band members like Jerry Garcia in, FTP, this hit song for the Grateful Dead about getting older.

Answer: “Touch of Grey”

17. The majority in this case relied largely upon the rulings of Bolt v. StennettandAldnutt v. Inglis and quoted at length the writings of Sir Matthew Hale, with regard to such things as “wharfingers, innkeepers, hackmen, and ferries.” It turned upon the ninth section of Article One of the Constitution, and concerned a man who was, among other things, supposed to pay a bond of $10,000 in assurance of the faithful performance of his duties. Justice Strong joined in the vehement dissent of Justice Field, focusing on the Fourteenth Amendment violation of the state constitution and legislative act at issue. With a majority opinion by Morrison Waite, FTP, name this 1876 Supreme Court case about the regulation and fixing of maximum prices on operators of grain elevators in the state of Illinois.

Answer: Munn v. Illinois

18. The goal of this reaction is similar to the Staudinger Reaction, but it is an SN2 reaction and not a reduction. Because potassium phthalimide is used and there is only one hydrogen attached to its crucial spot, only one alkyl group can be attached in this reaction, and phthalic acid is produced as an intermediate. It might utilize an Ing-Manske procedure, and it shares much in common with the Eschweiler-Clarke Reaction, except that the Eschweiler reaction uses formic acid and generates the tertiary methyl form of the target product, not the primary type. Involving the hydrolysis of an imide, FTP, name this reaction defined as the conversion of alkyl halides into primary amines, a synthesis named after its British discoverer.

Answer: Gabriel Synthesis

19. Extensive comparisons have been drawn between this author’s best known work and Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, mainly on the basis of similarities in their final chapters. He experimented with vanguard art in works like Domitilo Wants to Be a Congressman andThe Trials of a Decent Family and his first novel, Maria Luisa, was written while he was still a medical student.He takes a historical approach in One Hundred Years of the Mexican Novel. By far his most famous work features characters like Alberto Solis, General Natera, Luis Cervantes, and the so called “hero of Zacatecas” Demetrio Macias. FTP, name thisinfluential author of The Fireflies and The Underdogs, a prominent literary figure during the Mexican Revolution.

Answer: Mariano Azuela

20. Samuel Moniac was beaten for refusing to cooperate and it is believed that William Weatherford opposed this action, despite the fact that he greatly resented the opposing Captain Dixon Bailey. Josiah Francis and others supported it in retribution for the Battle of Burnt Corn, where Daniel Beasley had intercepted the party of Peter McQueen returning from Pensacola. Only 15 of nearly 300 settlers escaped the onslaught, a loss soon avenged at the Battle of Tallushatchee and other battles where the so-called Red Sticks were crushed by the hammer of Andrew Jackson. FTP, name this 1813 Indian ambush north of Mobile that kicked off the Creek War.

Answer: Fort Mims Massacre

1. Answer the following about a concept from psychology, FTPE.

A. Known sometimes as correspondence bias, this is the term for the tendency that people have to over-emphasize internal, dispositional explanations for the behavior of others, discovered during an experiment involving listening to speeches by Castro.

Answer: Fundamental Attribution Error or FAE

B. Name both of the experimenters who carried out the famous 1967 experiment, which led to the formulation of the Fundamental Attribution Error.

Answer: Edward E. Jones and Victor Harris

C. People occupying this state, initially proposed by John Sweller, are more likely to commit the Fundamental Attribution Error. Basically, it shows how the structuring of cognition has implications for the design of instruction.

Answer: Cognitive Load

2. Friedrich Ebert was forced to leave his capital and reduced to ordering a general strike, despite the help of the Erhardt Brigade. FTPE:

A. Name this 1920 attempt to overthrow the Weimar government led by its namesake right-wing journalist.

Answer: Kapp Putsch

B. The Kapp Putsch is sometimes hyphenated to include the name of this general who also led the Putsch with a gang of Freikorps men.

Answer: General Luttwitz

C. Problems in Weimar eventually led to this 1922 treaty between Germany and the USSR at the namesake site in Italy signed by Rathenau and Chicherin which accorded the USSR recognition and cancelled all prewar debts.